Help Save Hashtags.org
About a year and a half ago, we launched the first version of hashtags.org. Since then, the site has undergone many changes and technical challenges, but a few things are still the same. We still think hashtags are an important part of the twitter ecosystem, and we still think that hashtags.org has an important place. We still do not make any money from hashtags.org, and we still rely on donated hosting to stay online.
For the last few months, Engine Yard has graciously provided us free hosting on their Solo platform. Simply put, Solo is a fantastic platform and there is no doubt that we would still be fighting performance problems without them. If you are looking to host an application on Amazon EC2, we strongly recommend checking out Engine Yard Solo.
Lately, we have seen a large growth in traffic at hashtags.org, and it now takes quite a bit of resources to run the site. Engine Yard has asked us to cover our hosting costs, which has grown much higher these last months. And this is not something we can cover ourselves. So we need your help.
Hashtags.org is looking for a sponsor to keep us up & running. Our goal is to secure enough money to cover our current hosting needs.
Short of that, we are looking for any sponsorship/hosting solution that will allow us to stay online. If you are interested, or know of anyone who is, please DM or email one of us.
Thank you,
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April 24, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Step up Twitter…
April 24, 2009 at 4:20 pm
How much does it cost?
April 24, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Perhaps you could provide a paypal account link. If all your users sent through a dollar, you’d be fine! Crowdsourcing is the way of the future!
April 24, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Agree with Katie. I’ll bet users would kick in, $1 – $5 each. But you haven’t told us what the financial target is.
April 24, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Digg for support http://digg.com/tech_news/Help_Save_Hashtags_org
April 24, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Have you considered adsense to try and generate some revenue? It’s not pretty but at least it doesn’t spawn a whole bunch of pop-ups.
April 24, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I agree with Katie’s idea. I’m happy to donate into your paypal account as well.
Let us know how it goes.
Navid
April 24, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Can you provide some stats so companies like ourselves can get idea of the costs to host your service.
April 24, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Why should Twitter step up? They now have hashtags support built in to Twitter search. I think you’d be hard pressed to convince them to buy Hashtags.org. Maybe you can get help from @chrismessina.
April 24, 2009 at 7:08 pm
yeah, a dollar contrib from users might help. hashtags is amazing and we NEED them for consolidation of weather related issues- live reporting on Hurrricanes this season is a prime example!
April 25, 2009 at 5:21 pm
If seeking sponsorship can you give companies an idea of the amount of funding you require? Or, perhaps how many sponsorship opportunities there could be and in what form?
April 25, 2009 at 8:42 pm
great ideas from above. go for the trifecta: reduced hosting offers, google ads and crowdsourced dollars. c’mon, with the numbers already?
April 27, 2009 at 3:07 am
Hi, would like to help – but like the others some information would be helpful – costs, traffic etc dm me @rapidbi
or as others have said, publish the target & setup a Paypal account.
April 28, 2009 at 3:26 am
Hosting: we can help convert to a distributed platform that will allow you to split your bandwidth needs between many smaller hosts.
We’re glad to provide hosting and a portion of bandwidth as one of those hosts.